Abu-Lughod, J.L. (1995) Comparing Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles: testing some world cities hypotheses, in: P. L. Knox and P. J. Taylor (Eds) World Cities in a World System, ch. 10. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
2.
Douglass, M. (2000) The rise and fall of world cities in the changing space-economy of globalization. Comment on Peter J. Taylor's World cities and territorial states under conditions of contemporary globalization, Political Geography, 19, pp. 43-49.
3.
Friedmann, J. (1998) World city futures: the role of urban and regional policies in the Asia-Pacific region, in: Y. M. Yeung (Ed.) Urban Development in Asia: Retrospect and Prospect, ch. 2. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies , The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
4.
Giddens, A. (1984) The Constitution of Society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
5.
Hill, R.C. and Kim, J.W. (2000) Global cities and developmental states: New York, Tokyo and Seoul, Urban Studies, 37, pp. 2167-2195.
6.
Stallings, B. and Streeck, W. (1996) Capitalisms in conflict? The United States, Europe and Japan in the Post-cold war world, in: B. Stallings (Ed.) Global Change, Regional Response: The New International Context of Development, pp. 67-99. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
